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AUGUST, 1938

MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL. 7th ]u\y. Twenty-six Members present. Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association. Correspondence with the Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association on a variety of matters was dealt with and replies directed. 28th July. Twenty-four Members present. Copies of Documents, High Court. It was resolved that a letter be written to the Department of Justice drawing attention to the great inconvenience being caused by reason of the delay in the issue of copies of documents bespoken in offices of the High Court and, in particular, those bespoken in the Probate Department. Adjournment. The Council adjourned until 6th October. OBITUARY. MR. CHARLES J. REDDY, Solicitor, died on the 13th July, 1938, at Dun Laoghaire. Mr. Reddy served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. Edward C. Jameson, Dublin, was admitted in Michaelmas Sittings, 1908, and practised at 14 V/estland Row, Dublin as a member of the firm of C. J. Reddy and Son.

NEW MEMBERS. The following have joined the Society :-

William A. Beers, Dublin. John A. G. Cullen, Dublin. Patrick Howard, Dublin.

MISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION. Thomas Gerrard & Co. of 25 Westmoreland Street, have acquired the business of John Clark & Co. which was carried on by S. M. McAuliffe (who died on 2nd June last) at 66 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin. The business is now merged in that of Thomas Gerrard & Co. which is being carried on as heretofore at 25 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. CIRCUIT COURT COSTS. An interesting and important case came recently (on 2nd June, 1938) before the High Court on appeal from the Dublin Circuit Court on the question of solicitors' costs in the Circuit Court, in which it was decided that the fees prescribed in Parts I to IX (inclusive) of the Third"Schedule to the Circuit Court Rules are not exhaustive, and that Solicitors are entitled to have resort to the fees prescribed in Part X of the Schedule when there is additional work done, properly falling within the scope of